Remarks On Existential Nihilism Quotes

“You don’t have to do anything in life except die.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The prisoner is enslaved by steel bars. The free person is paralysed by debt, image, morality and family.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“When was the last time you woke up and the first sentence in your mind was: “How lucky am I to be alive in this universe?” Never I would imagine. Now why don’t you think in such a nihilistic grateful manner?”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“It is not science or religion that will annihilate us. It is economics.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“he must be the architect of his own renaissance.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“We are just an amalgam of electrons dancing in darkness.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Your duty if any should be to leave this world in a better place than when you first found it. The life of a human is no more valuable than that of a farmed chicken and as you read this sentence three thousand have been slaughtered.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Furthermore, we automatically deduce that people who don’t conform must be mentally ill. The homeless man who refuses to live as normal folk do is suffering some psychiatric malady. But imagine for instance a world of anarchy where law and order has broken down. In that world the mentally ill would be considered normal. Thus it can be assumed that mental illness is a derivative of an economic functioning world. “The fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.” - Erich Fromm.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“We are either regretting the past or dreaming of a warmer future. Either way, we neglect the present.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“I see on various internet forums, people talking about their “inadequate” mental health. They are depressed, anxious, worried etc. But they blame their minds. Not one person has ever blamed the economic system that causes their deterioration. That is how brainwashed they are on the system, that they blame themselves for what is the systems flaw.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“You are your own god and your own executioner; it is your own thoughts that make you who you are. Every animal on this planet has it bad except one: Man. We don’t realize how good we have it.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“You can always tell the immature in that they value human life above that of all other animals.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“A continuous source of woe is that you continuously compare yourself to others.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“We are still animals and yet to be called an animal would be an insult. That is the ego of man (particularly the narcissist). He believes that because he can speak, walk, build skyscrapers, see into the atom and much more that this planet is his entitlement.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“There is no journey to happiness. Happiness is the journey. To be unhappy because you are not living this dream life is the greatest insult to the universe.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“There is no journey to happiness. Happiness is the journey.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Normality is a paved road. It is comfortable to walk on, but no flowers grow on it.” - Vincent Van Gogh.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion” - Soren Kierkegaard.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Solitude is the only true freedom in this world. The anonymity that accompanies solitude can liberate you.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The question one should ask is not why we believe, but rather why we are so easily manipulated to believe. There has to be something nuclear at work if you can take the most intelligent life force in this universe and make them all want the same things. And it all starts when you are young and in education.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” - Henry David Thoreau.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8.30 am by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?” - Charles Bukowski.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.” - Noam Chomsky.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The first goal of life should be to find yourself. Success should be being happy for who you are.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.” - Emil Cioran.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“We are all identical because the education tyranny has deprived us of the ability to critically think.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Natural curiosity is the finest educator of all. 99% of people on this planet are machines and will not achieve anything of note in their existence. They will just get up for work, work and come home and go to sleep.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” - Margaret Mead.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“Man is the only insecure animal in existence”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity

“The most damning indictment of the current system is that despite the fact that we do not freeze or starve, we are still anxious.”
― Jack R. Ernest, Remarks On Existential Nihilism: Labelling, Narcissism and Existential Maturity